It was revealed earlier this week that a local non-profit organization which receives taxpayer funds, is the group behind the Friday, July 5 protests on I-5 which clogged the freeway near Boeing Field in South Seattle. Urban Family is a non-profit organization focused on youth and crime in Seattle’s Skyway neighborhood. They are funded by...
Advocates of a common sense approach to homelessness are pleased with Friday’s United States Supreme Court decision which allows local jurisdictions to again impose a ban on camping in order to stop large homeless encampments from being constructed on public property. Burien Mayor Kevin Schilling, who has been locked in a battle with King County...
Nearly all restrictions imposed on police pursuits by previous state lawmakers were removed as Initiative 2113 finally became state law on June 6. The legislature passed the citizen Initiative (along with parental notification initiative and a ban on future state income tax) after Let’s Go Washington collected more than 400,000 signatures (around 325K were needed)....
As regional homelessness numbers continue to break records, the crisis has driven the unprecedented growth in the size and cost of government in the City of Seattle, King County, and Washington State. Moreover, nearly every department, agency, commission, council and authority at all levels of government have used the crisis to justify its budget expansion...
As homelessness and drug overdose deaths continue to spiral out-of-control in Washington State, a group of more than 50 local officials have taken steps to provide alternatives to the political philosophies which they believe are at the root of the problem – progressives’ Housing First homeless strategy and Harm Reduction drug policy. Last Thursday, Future...
Two very troublesome facts were revealed last week which provide more evidence that the progressives’ “Housing First” homeless policy and “Harm Reduction” drug policy are failing to end the suffering that is taking place on our streets. These numbers are similar to those in other progressive West Coast cities and states. These facts require us...
Progressive politicians now have complete control of Spokane’s city government, triggering local employers and community leaders to be concerned that their unchecked extreme homeless policies will cause their downtown neighborhood to decay as it has in Seattle. Last week these concerns came to the forefront as new Mayor Lisa Brown unveiled her transitional housing policy...
Things are completely backwards in Seattle where the government is creating the problems and then demanding the private sector clean up the city’s mess. In an illuminating segment sponsored by Future42, [un]Divided’s Brandi Kruse examined multiple examples of how the City of Seattle enforces one set of regulations on businesses, yet does not enforce the...
It seems every week there is another story of how a King County official, or the large county government bureaucracy (currently more than 14,000 employees) has done something to make residents feel less safe or worsen the region’s homeless crisis.
On February 26, 2024, a politician spoke in front of a small yet very passionate group of activists who had gathered with homemade signs to support an announcement from the public official. She tells the crowd how her sister died of an overdose the day before her 26th birthday and how the progressive’s “harm reduction”...
The decade-long failure of Seattle progressives to solve its homelessness “emergency” continues to impact suburban King County communities which are currently being forced to accept both temporary and permanent “low-barrier” housing projects.
We are kinda disappointed in you, Mr. Mayor. You’ve been in office for 27 months, and you have yet to tell Seattle residents what your plan is to combat the city’s serious crime and drug problems. (We, and many others have been asking you for your strategy since you were elected on a tough-on-crime platform...
Some people simply signed the petitions, while others spent hours volunteering, but together we did something political pendants said couldn’t be done.
Fate has not been kind to Seattle’s five previous mayors. Three (Schell, Nickels, and McGinn) were defeated in re-election bids, one (Murray) resigned, and the last mayor (Durkan), saw her re-election poll numbers plummet due to the city’s poor response to the illegal actions of progressive rioters. This time next year it is expected that...